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Tuscan bean soup

Tuscan bean soup
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    sweet enough's Notes: about 15 years ago my good friend Nina gave me this delicious and easy recipe. I vary it by adding tomatoes and pasta or kale or whatever else feels appealing at the moment. I use canned...

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Serves 4-6

  1. place the olive oil over a medium high heat in a soup pot and cook the onion until it starts to turn translucent. add the garlic, celery, and carrot and cook for another 2-3 minutes, taking care not to burn the garlic. add the beans, rosemary and the broth. bring to just the point of a boil and lower heat. simmer uncovered for about 45 minutes.

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  2. puree about 3/4 or the mixture in a blender (make sure soup is cool enough to handle) or better yet use an immersion blender.

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  3. serve with a drizzle of excellent olive oil and some grated parmigiano reggiano

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4 Comments on Tuscan bean soup

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This is an easy base soup. To punch up the flavor I added a TBL organic tomato paste, some basil, parsley and red pepper flakes. Also added fresh spinach and zucchini. Now it is a nice summer soup.

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Made it tonight and it was FAB!

Lnd_jen Reply

Yum. I make a very similar soup - I actually cooked up a big pot of it last night! Yours sounds great.

Heather_cooking Reply

thanks -- I think everyone has their own version of this one. winter is soup time so I've been making a lot of it.

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